Joseph Menn reports on the group of hackers some have called “Scattered Spider:” … New research being presented Friday at the LABScon security conference outside Phoenix gives an origin story to the hackers, who the experts say call themselves Star Fraud. They say the group consists of a few dozen hackers who have connected online…
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What to know about the University of Minnesota’s data breach
Devlin Epding reports what the U. of Minnesota has been uncovering about a breach first discovered in July. After investigating a data breach report from August, the University of Minnesota acknowledged Thursday that personal information about students, prospective students and employees across 30 years has been compromised. The U began its investigation after an individual…
Air Canada says unauthorized group breached employee data, hacked internal system
Temur Durrani reports: Air Canada says an unauthorized group of people obtained access to its internal system, compromising the personal information of an unknown number of employees working for the country’s largest airline. In a brief statement on Wednesday afternoon, Air Canada spokesperson Peter Fitzpatrick said “certain records” were affected by the “limited” breach, without naming…
TissuPath’s data breach notice provides details about how they were attacked and their incident response
Mirage reports: TissuPath, a specialist pathology firm in Australia, has experienced a data breach due to a cyber security incident. The breach involved a third-party supplier attack, accessing pathology referral records kept in a backup storage drive. Read more at Mirage News. TissuPath has posted a security notice on its website that begins with an…
HK: Hacking of Cyberport sparks discussions of law on cyber security
The Standard reports: Authorities are now mulling to introduce a law on cyber security and will strengthen communications with overseas agencies, said I&T minister Sun Dong following a recent hacking on Cyberport’s computer system. Some 400 gigabytes of data, including HKID card numbers, bank statements and resumes, was stolen and released on the dark web…
#StopRansomware: Snatch Ransomware
There is a new Joint Cybersecurity Advisory issued today. This one is about Snatch Team. Summary: The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency(CISA) are releasing this joint CSA to disseminate known ransomware IOCs and TTPs associated with the Snatch ransomware variant identified through FBI investigations as recently as June…